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Venus · Bananarama

Venus · Bananarama
EXERCISE 12 OF 21
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 3-47)
68 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venus on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 21 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Venus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 38, 50, 51 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Venus?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Venus hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Venus?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 38, 50, 51 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED